http://SupremeMasterTV.com – The United Nations International Day Against Drug Abuse. Episode: 1746, Air Date: 26 June 2011.
Greetings, caring viewers. Today is the United Nations International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Tragically, there are at least 200,000 addictive drug-related deaths each year. Other heavy tolls include increased crime, violence, costs for health care, law enforcement, lost productivity, and environmental destruction.
For many years, Supreme Master Ching Hai has expressed deep concern for people vulnerable to addictive drugs. During a June 2009 seminar, she discussed this “top killer,” along with three other harmful substances that people should avoid: meat, tobacco, and alcohol.
Drugs destroy lives, intelligence and function of countless of our kind, wreaking grief and havoc on families, darkening or terminating people’s future, youths’ future especially, as youths are impressionable and easily fall into this kind of tempta